The Color Purple

[kybearfuzz]

I know it's FYFF, but I'm at work and can't really do that. I did take a pic though and there's fur in it :) I saw the photo and it reminded me of a newly discovered quirk.

When I was in high school, I didn't have many clothes. Not a sob story here, but my family was dirt poor and we made do with what we had. A large clothing budget wasn't there. I did have this purple shirt I bought that I loved. I wore it through high school, then college, and I still have it (this isn't it). I loved how the color looked with jeans.

After growing up and getting a job, I turned into what a friend coined the other day as a clothing whore. I don't think it's necessarily true, but there could be a slight psychological issue there. What I need to do is weed out the closets more often of what I don't wear.

Last night, my buddy Tim and I went to dinner and then walked around Dillard's. I found a couple of shirts I liked and we started talking about what we wear to work. When I described how I put my work clothes out and together, usually a lighter shirt with darker pants (excluding khakis and jeans), he remarked, "You mean you dress monochomatic?"

I was about to say no, but the more I thought about it, the answer tends to be yes (at least in terms of work clothes). Shades of color are easier to throw together than complimentary colors -- light green shirt with dark green pants, light blue shirt with dark blue pants, gray shirt with black pants -- I tend to do that, though not all the time. In a morning rush, such matching is easy to do. I guess I just never gave it a great deal of consideration until it was pointed out to me.

Am I alone here, or do some of you guys do that too?

Comments

[dendren.livejournal.com]

I tend toward dark pants light shirt or light pants dark shirt. Tan and brown or green or black or dark blue, blue and gray, white and black, dark brown and maroon. I don't vary much at all, these pants are always with this shirt etc etc LOL I don't have much by way of fashion sense, matching light and dark tend to work well for me.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I keep it simple, I guess. I have found that I can convince myself something matches when it doesn't if I'm not careful. I usually try to keep some colors that I know go well together, like red/orange/yellow and brown pants, yellow with green pants, some blue with brown pants, etc. Patterns? I tend to dodge them.